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Tim Dayton Editor & Author

Tim Dayton is Professor of English at Kansas State University. He is the author of Muriel Rukeyser's The Book of the Dead (2003), American Poetry and the First World War (2018), and numerous articles on American poetry and crime fiction, and historical materialist literary theory and criticism. He is leading a project to develop a digital archive of American First World War poetry. Mark W. Van Wienen is Professor of English at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of The Political Work of American Poetry in the Great War (1997) and American Socialist Triptych (2012), the latter supported by an NEH fellowship. He has edited Rendezvous with Death: American Poems of the Great War (2002) and American Literature in Transition, 1910-1920 (2018).